http://www.gamedesignideas.com Game Design, Artificial Intelligence, Complex Systems Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:41:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.gamedesignideas.com/video-games/towards-human-like-ai-in-video-games.html http://www.gamedesignideas.com/video-games/gameplay-game-mechanics/defining-emergence-and-complexity-in-video-games.html http://www.gamedesignideas.com/video-games/the-perfect-game-%e2%80%93-limbo.html http://www.gamedesignideas.com/video-games/designing-for-emergence-in-video-games.html http://www.gamedesignideas.com/video-games/morality-in-games-the-developer%e2%80%99s-side-of-the-story.html Back in 2005, I quit my job as a well-test engineer in order to start making games, my only passion, besides AI. At some point, a programmer friend and I created a prototype of a fully interactive training environment for oilfield operators. With my knowledge of oilfield equipment and operations, and his knowledge of 3D engine programming, it seemed the right thing to do. I tried to demonstrate the main features of the project along with some screenshots in this article.]]> http://www.gamedesignideas.com/serious-games/serious-game-wellsite-simulator-for-oilfield-operators.html http://www.gamedesignideas.com/book-review/book-review-a-theory-of-fun-for-game-design-by-raph-koster.html http://www.gamedesignideas.com/book-review/book-review-ai-techniques-for-game-programmers.html http://www.gamedesignideas.com/video-games/story/interactive-storytelling-and-the-problem-of-human-behavior-modeling.html http://www.gamedesignideas.com/ramble/finally.html